Two months after i saw this film advertised in the paper,cinemax aired a film called NIGHTMARE.In the guide was a still of a bunch of people that looked like they were running in a camp or somewhere.It could have been a different film with the title.Does anyone know?Thanks.
shareAbsolutely NOT, wrong film, this film definitely did NOT air on any cable television network in the early eighties or ever. A horrible Universal Studios distributed anthology film called NIGHTMARES aired quite often on cable tv during this time, however.......
shareMy copy of this movie is on a VHS of various movies my uncle taped off Cinemax and HBO in the 80s, so it's very likely.
shareThis can easily be confirmed by contacting CINEMAX. Make sure you ask for credits to the film if either of you do inquire, NIGHTMARE being such a generic title. I don't recall seeing ANY of those 21ST Century Distribution titles from the early 1980's on CINEMAX or any other tv cable network, I still am skeptical. They all got dumped onto very obscure and short-lived videotape company releases in short order after brief and sporadic theatrical distributions.
Actually, thinking about it now, there is NO way this could have been shown on CINEMAX in 1982. During this time, these movie channel cable networks had a policy forbidding the screenings of films that did not have MPAA Ratings. They would also not show self-imposed X-Rated/Unrated films such as NIGHTMARE, DAWN OF THE DEAD, MANIAC, etc. There was NO R-Rated cut of NIGHTMARE for cable tv distribution, either. Even by the latter 80's or into the 1990's, I am sure these policies held strong, but even if they became more lenient, there would have been no proper distribution source or motivational impetus to cable syndicate a film like NIGHTMARE by then, the sexual and violent content in the film would have been too much.......But in 1982, no way did any unrated/x-rated horror film air on a cable movie channel......
Cinemax would cut their own versions. The Toxic Avenger is one of those films. I don't know about Nightmare. I wouldn't cast the possibility aside though.
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They didn't start doing that until the late 80's and 90's, they did not show NIGHTMARE then. I was watching CINEMAX and THE MOVIE CHANNEL throughout the early 80's, glued to the tv. NIGHTMARE never played on cable tv, NEVER!!! I would have noticed it if it was on as I was renting it all the time and would have wanted to tape it if it did air. TROMA sold their films in a package to cable tv networks in the late 80's as did Charles Band's EMPIRE PICTURES (later FULL MOON PROD.) and all the films were edited as such anyway that suited the network airing them. NIGHTMARE was never owned by such a distribution outfits as these.
shareI have to disagree with the comment that all premium cable movies channels refused to air movies without a rathing
By the early 80's I had all four major movie channels (HBO/Cinemax + Showtime/Movie Channel)and as far as who edited content or refused unrated, it was definitely Showtime over HBO. Movies like Toxic Avenger (except on the premier showing), Eyes of a Stranger (throat slitting was gone), and Death Wish II were all edited. However on the other hand HBO went almost entirely in the opposite direction. Of course anything X rated was a no go but Unrated movies were more than okay and (IMO) encouraged. Some good examples were the horror flick Reanimator and the TV movie Nightmare in Badham County which both went unrated. Reanimator on HBO had all its gore restored that was missing from the R rated VHS copies. Then there was Nightmare in Badham County. Originally it aired in the mid 70's as a TV movie but HBO broadcast the uncensored overseas version (with added nudity and violence) and even had the balls to air it during the afternoon hours??? And let's not forget that after hours Cinemax was often referred to as Skinemax for all its soft porn romps through out much of the 80's and 90's.
Anyway had Nightmares been available, I think it would have made it on HBO (late night) but hell to the no for Showtime unless severely edited.
I was obsessively watching and paying more attention to than I should have ALL of the programming of these cable networks during the eighties and I can state with complete assurance that Romano Scavolini's NIGHTMARE did NOT air!!!!!!!!!! Period.......
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You don't know this. You can act like the authority on it, but unless you can remember every movie ever shown, you can't say for sure.
Here's what I suggest doing: here in my area we can go back to the 1800s on microfilm. First thing to do is check into the period you thought it played. They should have a listing for Cinemax and you won't have to weed through too many ads seeing there were only basic stations then.
MOST times (at least in my area) there was an indication of the actors and the year it was made. Just get the names in the credits or the year. If can't find it, perhaps you can post the date and we can narrow it down that way.
If this was 1982, there is a possibility the '64 Hammer Film of the same name is what you're thinking of. If not, there's a good chance it's the 1981 (as the Nightmares mortuorum_masticatione is talking about didn't come out until 1983...and the other films titled Nightmare in that era were foreign films.)
The information is out there, you just have to go dig it up.
by the way, if you were renting this film from a video store then you could have owned a copy on VHS b dubbing it to a blank video cassette. you just connect two vcrs with a coaxial cord, and connect one to a tv with a coaxial cord, and play the one from a video store and record the film onto the blank vhs tape.
shareFor some reason, NIGHTMARE IN BADHAM COUNTY was retitled NIGHTMARE and shown on Cinemax in 1982. I had a friend tape it, thinking that I was getting the Scavolini NIGHTMARE--boy, did I get a wrong number!
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